From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jan 7 18:30:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A82C152A1 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA02972; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:30:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200001080230.SAA02972@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams Cc: Brett Glass , naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump over ssh References: <854v9q$1gf9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <200001071939.LAA88746@apollo.backplane.com> <4.2.2.20000107155733.01d32b40@localhost> <200001072302.QAA08054@mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :> Can you do any or all of these things from a script? As I recall, :> ssh requires "live" entry of the password from the keyboard (though :> I haven't tried it lately). : :Only if you require a password to access your keypair. Otherwise, it :doesn't require it. : : :Nate Right. I give my backup machine a keypair to the 'operator' account on my other machines through which it runs the dumps. I bought a cheap high capacity IDE drive for the backup machine big enough to hold the dumps to avoid having to direct them to the tape in real time, which saves a lot on tape drive wear. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message